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Hi,

Belated thanks to Mack and Larry for suggestions made in this long set of postings (viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4322&hilit=noise) which I've gone back to, adapted and come up with a working solution. It was a white noise/TV static animation involving 6400 black dots randomly flickering. What aided the solution was using 6400 images of black dots instead of vectors (duplicated by Quickbuild>Create Table), alternating transparency, thereby removing one of the actions in an earlier script that the loop iterated through and improving animation speed.

update:
I had had some difficulty figuring out how to add a timer, but with some experimenting, have now been able to get one working.

So, for now, Timer resolved. (A lot more work though to get this project "cleaned up.")

Again, much thanks to Mack and Larry for their earlier help!

Kind Regards,

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your considerate follow-up.

I remember this problem (it's coming back slowly...). The issue as I recall was Opus' ability to refresh so many small squares of black and white randomness. (or in the U.K., do you say "randomnesses"?) Too many objects and too fast of a required refresh... just did not work. You had to find a 'sweet-spot'.

What I think you are raising here, updating here, is that you essentially went to bit-mapped and some tweaking to get the desired result.


I think the STORY out of all of this is that OpusPro and its sister applications are just so wonderfully robust. It may take some work, but somewhere, somehow... a wonderful solution can be built.

Cheers and best wishes.
Larry

Hi Larry,

Yes, less taxing for the refresh, using a single PNG (dot) for the 6400 images.

And most definitely, Opus has so many great and adaptive features that most often, a solution can be found. Which is why I kept experimenting, trying different "combinations."

Kind Regards,